Browser attack: Acceleration through graphics card as a point of attack
Browser attack: Using a website with malicious JavaScript, researchers from the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication Technology at Graz University of Technology were able to spy on information about data, keyboard entries and encryption keys on third-party computers in three different attacks via WebGPU. Modern websites place ever greater demands on the computing power of computers. Therefore, in addition to the CPU of a computer, web browsers have also been given access to the computing capacity of the graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit or GPU) for several years. The JavaScript scripting language can use the resources of the GPU via programming interfaces such as WebGL and the new WebGPU standard. However, this carries risks. Researchers carry out browser attack on Crome, Edge & Co. WebGPU is currently…